According to the National STD / AIDS control programme of the Health Department a total of 131 people had died of AIDS in Sri Lanka up to 2004.

This is revealed in a report published by the Research and Publication Unit of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board on drug abuse information.

According to this report in the section on HIV / AIDS related information, the reported AIDS cases in Sri Lanka by gender in the years 2003 and 2004 were 2003 - males 114 females 47 and 2004 - males 130 and females 49. The HIV cases reported in this period were 2003 - males 309 and females 214 and in 2004 - males 363 and females 251.